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That it was edited by Alejandro Arbona, recently made redundant by Marvel Comics, was seen by some as a possible reason. UPDATE: There are two very adamant but contradictory sides to why this happened currently being expressed to me All from people I trust All from people who are very sure of their version – albeit[...]

This does not include UK sales, and items with an asterisk are returnable by the retailer for a small fee, and so have been reduced by DIamond by 10% to compensate. Superman #2 seems to the most prominent loser in October, slipping from fourth place in September to tenth place, but only because Justice League,[...]

Dr Manolis Vamvounis writes for Bleeding Cool (What? If Marvel can go all decimal in their numberings, then bitch, so can I!) In which I bitch and moan about the new X-Men books out this month! Follow my daily rantings on @theComicsGreek. WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #1 HELLO, X-MEN! Jason Aaron takes the X-Men to the next step, which also happens[...]

Back in March this year, Marvel Comics had a 40% share of money spent on comics through Diamond Comic Distributors, and a 45% share of the number of comics sold DC had only 27.62% and 31.5% share respectively. Well what a change half a year can make After taking Marvel on marketshare for the month of[...]

Marvel are offering a number of trade paperbacks that are about to go out of print, to retailers for extra discount. The company are renowned now for not keeping their backlist in stock One rumour states that Isaac Perlmutter has threatened to fire any editor who keeps more than five volumes of any series in print[...]

 Is it volume 2, even though the original 1963 series didn't actually start out as Uncanny — a situation that was already rendered confusing by the debut of adjectiveless X-Men in 1991?  Perhaps the new indicia clears all this up, but never mind that now — it'll be Mark's job to clarify it in the[...]

ThrillDelight: The Thrill Electric episode three has gone live. DayAndDateDelight: Marvel have announced that all their comics will now be day-and-date digital apart from their licensed and MAX Probably not Icon or Disney comics either The move will be completed by March 2012. MoneyBagsDelight: Graphic.Ly has bought the Apple App, Double Feature, developed by Four Star [...]

A glimpse at some upcoming Marvel releases took the top two slots today, with Rich's take on today's New 52 releases rounding out the top of the charts for the day  If you don't wanna know, you don't wanna scroll… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Winter Soldier #1 From Brubaker And Guice In 2012 Today Fear Itself #7.1[...]

Fan anticipation for the May 2012 debut of The Avengers film has already been building for months, and here's the latest sign that the popularity of Marvel's own  all-star team is currently on a rapid rise:  A CGC 9.6 copy of Avengers #1 was sold for $250,000 by Metropolis Collectibles last week — a record[...]

 Born November 2, 1927, Ditko began working in comics in 1953 and went on to create or co-create characters such as Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Captain Atom, Hawk & Dove, The Creeper, and others, and has left his mark on countless other characters with an incredible range of stories from Marvel, DC, Charlton, and other publishers. Stephen[...]

Which features the memorial service for Bucky Barnes – Captain America's sidekick in the war, who was revived as Soviet weapon The Winter Soldier and then became Captain America when the original was thought dead. During the issue you discover that the Winter Soldier identity, at least, is alive and kicking. And at the back there is[...]

Quite a few big-2 comics have been pulling me back in, in recent months, and it looks like this is going to be one of them. Always been a big fan --

Okay, so it's not a glitch. Then again, the Swipe File isn't all about swipes. A rose by any other name would still have been played by Billie Piper. But

Just how does your world conquering plan get affected when someone else has a world conquering plan getting in the way of your doo hickeys? Most enjoyable. Fantastic Four #600 is published by Marvel  on November 23rd. So I have read Fantastic Four #600 Well, some of it anyway A good half Now this is not[...]

Bleeding Cool previously ran the story of how Diamond and Marvel managed to miss Kick Ass #5 from its November retailer order form, adding it as a "retro-solicitation" in its December Previews, for November, but coming up as an "order again" issue by mistake. As a result a number of retailers ordered no copies or very[...]

Marvel has announced they will continue the free download of digital copies of Avenging Spider-Man by Zeb Wells and Joe Madureira through the first arc to issue three And with the first issue topping six figures in orders from comic store retailers, we may be about to see how well the ComiXOlogy servers will cope[...]

 Take the case of the original All-Winners Comics, which Marvel launched as a quarterly in 1941 to feature separate adventures of its most popular characters and their sidekicks  Definitely a good idea, and by issue 19 Marvel had the even better idea of teaming them all up together in the same comic book story. Unfortunately, by[...]

Last seen retranslating the Bible and painting peace symbols onto the bodies of naked women, Bill Jemas used to be the President of Marvel Comics. He formed the Ultimate imprint, co-wrote Origins and in many ways helped bring Marvel back from the brink of bankruptcy, though he developed a reputation of micromanaging and enforcing tangential ideas[...]

The eight issue mini-series All Winners Squad: Band Of Heroes by Paul Jenkins and Carmine Di Giandomenico has been cancelled at issue 5. Although the

That he had continued his world conquering, fighting, ruling exploits in some Game Of Thrones-esque fashion forever, well away from the confines of the Marvel Universe That he had never gone back. And there are some who wished the Hulk had never left the planet, that he had got nuts deep involved in the Civil War,[...]

Cebulski, would visit Mexico in November in search of local artists for Marvel Comics. Humberto Ramos and friends are organizing a comics convention in the Kapow style called FESTO cómic with over sixty comics creators showing off their most recently published work – and selling it. The comic book marketplace has collapsed in Mexico of late,[...]

Let's join some dots. Purely speculation. Nothing more, let's make that clear. No inside sources. Just reading between the lines. Exactly. Mark Millar has

As the Marvelcution hits one side of the business, with more jobs feared to be hit shortly, so Marvel begin advertising on Facebook the upcoming Intern programs at for college students in Manhattan, New York and Muscle Beach, LA starting in the spring of 2012 The deadline to apply is November the 19th, but remember,[...]

Iron Man 2.0's last issue was in December. Alpha Flight's last issue is in January. It was only made an ongoing series with the current issue... Here's

Last weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a piece looking at seven points addressed in Marvel's upcoming Point One oneshot. Well here are seven more. 1 Bodies that may have some future relevance include the Taiji Corp, The Impossible and The Unseen. 2 We take a mysterious return to Birj, the home planet of Terrax The Tamer. 3 Coldmoon and Dragonfire[...]

And Stephan Nilson, Kevin Stokes and Charles Pritchett's Extinction graphic novel from Frozen Beach Studio looks at a virus that kills 90% of the purpose, and the mission to save the remaining 10%. Marvel bring you Scarlet Spider #1 and Wolverine And The X-Men Omega #1, Boom publish Peanuts #1 (with a Charles Schultz cover), And in[...]

Janelle Asselin used to be a Batman editor, but she recently left to work in Disney Magazines, where she appears to be turning a whole new generation of kids into comic book readers. In the UK, there have been a number of comics published by Panini/Marvel UK featuring Marvel superheroes aimed at kids, young kids even,[...]

News of several people being let go from Marvel Comics today cast a shadow over the entire industry, just as it had been catching its breath in the wake of an eventful New York Comic Con There will certainly be more on this story in the days to come. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Return Of Watchmen[...]

The Comics Beat, CBR and Bleeding Cool have been reporting a series of dismissals at Marvel Comics, as cost-cutting becomes the big new Marvel event. Talking to numerous Marvel sources, this seems to be the current  list of very recent dismissals, though you'll find more from before, here, as well as a look as to why[...]

I recently wrote a piece called The Spinning Plates Of Dan DiDio, looking at issues inside DC Comics, concern about the micromanagement of many of the New 52 comics, Dan's personal exposure over the relaunch and the likelihood of creators leaving certain comics because they can't take the current management style. Well, with NYCC having been[...]